[HPforGrownups] Re: Killing and murdering in the UK WW

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 129859

tigerpatronus wrote:
 
I've been thinking about it, and I think that, on the western side of 
the Pond, we generally don't use "murder" as a verb. We generally 
say, "He committed a murder," or else we use it in the passive 
voice, "THree people were murdered," but even then we tend to 
use "kill." It may be due to our ongoing problem with victimization 
and lack of adament responsibility for heinous acts. This may be due to a very litigious society and the unwillingness to libel or slander and thus open ourselves up to lawsuits. 

JM$.02. 

TK -- TigerPatronus

Lynn:

Hence the reason for using the word "allegedly" until such time as someone has been convicted of a crime.

I happen to think the reason we use kill more than murder is due there being so many varying degrees and until the prosecution decides the degree, we don't know if it was 1st degree murder, 2nd degree murder, 3rd degree murder, manslaughter, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment, depraved indifference to human life, assasination, capital murder, serial murder, mass murder ... well you get the idea.

It is far easier to say kill.

Cheers






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